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Re: Error : no ROM basic
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Dean Riddle <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:38:39 -0800
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At 08:12 PM 11/5/98 +0530, you wrote:
As soon as he swithces
>it on , he gets the message "NO ROM BASIC , SYSTEM HALTED".

My system did this when the hard drive was not set as the active partition.
The partition is made active by using the dos command "fdisk" and following
the menu prompts to make the c: drive the active partition. (See previous
post about fdisk)
Dean

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